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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4948 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash. I much prefer later Replacements, but it's this is good to blow the cobwebs off, and has at least a couple of songs which pointed to where they were headed a few years down the road. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4954 Registered: 05-2005 |
New Model Army - Heroin. A great b-side from the 80s. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4960 Registered: 05-2005 |
Does an album from 2009 count as "Revive"? I'm listening to Madnesses brilliant The Liberty Of Norton Folgate right now. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4961 Registered: 05-2005 |
1994 definitely counts as revive. I'm listening now to the amazing L'Etat Et Moi by Blumfeld. Anyone else here love this album as much as I do? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2021 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Fall - Dragnet. The guitars on this are pure scratchy genius. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4962 Registered: 05-2005 |
Vic Chessnutt - Drunk. The original cassette-only version he sold himself when his label wouldn't release it. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2456 Registered: 01-2005 |
John Coltrane - Fearless Leader boxset | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4968 Registered: 05-2005 |
INXS - Kick (25th anniversary edition, disc 2) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4980 Registered: 05-2005 |
Geoff Smith - 15 Wild Decembers. First time I've ever heard this, and it's quite brilliant. Not to everyone's taste though. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4981 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ingrid Michaelson - Human Again. I like this very much. If you love Tori Amos's Little Earthquakes album (as I do), this is for you. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4982 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ingrid Michaelson's album just came out this year, of course. Wrong thread for it. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4987 Registered: 05-2005 |
Barmy Army - Barmy Army / Sharp As A Needle. Best dub football song ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4988 Registered: 05-2005 |
And now on to Matthew Sweet's 100% Fun. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5000 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Jazz Butcher - Sixteen Years. Two minutes and three seconds of Thatcher-hating bile. Brilliant. (This is my 5000th post. Do I get a prize?) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2026 Registered: 10-2008 |
A.R.Kane - I Met Rudy whilst staying with mate in London back in late 80's, top bloke. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5004 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Beatles - Roll Over Beethoven (Live At The Hollywood Bowl, 23 August 1964) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5021 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pretty Things - Talkin' About The Good Times | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 593 Registered: 05-2005 |
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas - Hitch Hike this is There She Goes Again by the Velvets | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 594 Registered: 05-2005 |
keep misposting , last entry was song of the day, revive album is : American Music Club - United Kingdom | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 597 Registered: 05-2005 |
Mathilde Santing - Water Under the Bridge finally picked up a CD copy of this after years of searching, what an amazing album this is, gorgeous from start to finish, nothing else she ever did came close to it's genius | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5041 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes Rachid Taha - Tekitoi | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3058 Registered: 03-2005 |
Still working on rebuilding my iTunes library. This morning I loaded up "London Calling"--well, about half of it--and the overwhelming majority of the tracks from the Saints' three Ed Kuepper albums. I've never been a big fan of the Clash. I couldn't help noticing how much they followed the Saints' lead from "Prehistoric Sounds" but the Saints took the heat for growing out of punk whereas the Clash became stadium heroes. But I think the big difference between my reaction to the two bands and their respective commercial fates stems from the fact that the Saints were big on minor key songs. I love minor keys but the main music audience does not. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5047 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter Gabriel - So, three disc remaster version. The remastering is brilliant, and the two live discs from a contemporaneous concert in Athens, are stunning. I loved his live double album in the 80s, so I was pretty sure I was going to like these discs. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5049 Registered: 05-2005 |
I listened to Billy Bragg's Don't Try This At Home on my iPod earlier. It's his classic, as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5051 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've been listening to lots of Paul McCartney songs in the past couple of hours. A lot of his solo work is very underrated. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2252 Registered: 09-2006 |
As you might guess I'm right there with you on that last one, Padraig.  | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2469 Registered: 01-2005 |
R.E.M. - Document 25th annivery double disc. Nice remaster on the studio album, and Oddfellows Local 151 really cracks!However it's the second disc live album that makes the purchase worthwhile. Unless they release a double disc Dead Letter Office with the Chronic Town ep and a 1982 live album, I can't see myself buying another one of these. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5063 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Grays - Ro Sham Bo | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2042 Registered: 10-2008 |
Bob Dylan - Desire | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2045 Registered: 10-2008 |
Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5078 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Boo Radleys - Find The Way Out compilation | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2046 Registered: 10-2008 |
Real dearth of good new music just now, and has been for a good few months. Not been a good year at all really, so thought I'd dig out 20 or so stone cold classics, and some great best ofs, from various genres to play over the next 3 or 4 days LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Tom Waits - Bad As Me Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers Elliott Smith - An Introduction To Yo La Tengo - Prisoners Of Love (1985-2003) The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground Plastikman - Muzik Sly And The Family Stone - The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Best of John Foxx - Modern Art, The Best Of Kratftwerk - Radio-Activity Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks Basic Channel - Basic Channel Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets Capt Beefheart - Safe As Milk Miles Davis - In A Silent Way Muddy Waters - The Anthology Lou Reed - New York Talking Heads -77 Model 500 - Classics Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Zuma Iggy Pop - The Idiot | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2053 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Roof Tops The Blue Nile - Hats Both of these have been released as double discs with extras. Is it safe to say we like these albums again? I remember when the first album came out in the 80's and it was like "holy fcuk, where did this come from?". It was similar to hearing Unknown Pleasures for the first time in so much as it just came out of nowhere, there was no press build up, no singles, no gigs - at least if there was I missed it. Unfortunately The Blue Nile couldnt live up to these two brilliant albums and the next few records were not up to scratch, I now think to myself just imagine how great it would have been if they had taken the Talk Talk route? I believe they had the ability and imagination and song craft to do it, but for whatever reason they didnt. Paul Buchanans excellent, stripped down solo album from this year is also well worth getting if anybody is curious. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5089 Registered: 05-2005 |
The remasters are on their way to me Kevin, the solo album has already arrived. Did you know that Paul Buchanan is a major Celtic fan? | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2054 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yo La Tengo - Prisoners Of Love By my estimation this the best compilation released by any American rock band in the last 25 years. Its a double disc, and doesnt follow any set chronoligical order and highlights perfectly this little groups many various takes on how to craft a song. Whether it be poppy, light acoustic numbers, velvetsy drones (but still melodic), wig outs or standard issue rock n roll, nothing ever really sounds samey but is still distinctly them. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2055 Registered: 10-2008 |
I didnt Padraig, but its widely accepted that most of the more intelligent Scottish musicians have leanings towards Celtic!! (tin hat on!) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5091 Registered: 05-2005 |
Kevin, there's a three disc version of Prisoners Of Love too. Probably pretty hard to get now though. It is a great compilation. Not a lot of love for the Huns on this board these days. Division 3 probably sorted that out... | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2056 Registered: 10-2008 |
Padraig, I recall not springing for that three disc version at the time, wish I had now! Although surprisingly it can be had very cheaply. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing /B0007MANWG/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&cond ition=used Yo La Tengo are probably one of these groups who like The Velvets and The Stooges before them will not be properly revered till they are no longer with us. I think they suffer from over familiarity, and latterly predictability. The last few albums havent been great, but there was a 10 year period between 1990 and 2000 where they released some sublime albums. Hopefully the upcoming album is a return to form. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 462 Registered: 03-2007 |
The Schramms - Walk To Delphi Kevin's mention of Yo La Tengo encouraged me to revisit this one. Dave Schramm was a member of Yo La Tengo when they recorded their debut album ( Ride The Tiger.) | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3076 Registered: 03-2005 |
Ok, I sprung for the 3 CD YLT collection. The only thing I ever got of theirs was "I Will Beat Your Ass . . . " which I thought was a big "name that tune" exercise. One overall antho will do for them. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2479 Registered: 01-2005 |
Kev, Thanks for mentioning the Hats double disc with extras reissue! I just orderd it from the amazon UK site. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hUKwBeJe 78 | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2057 Registered: 10-2008 |
The 2nd disc of A Walk Across The Roof Tops is the more interesting of the two for me. More stuff that I hadn't heard (b sides and rarities) than there is on the 2nd disc of Hats, that is live stuff mainly. Dissapointingly there are no sleevenotes with an insight as to how the albums came about, or even a potted history of the band - just pics and credits. Still, two very good reissues to round off the year. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1701 Registered: 08-2006 |
Whoa, I didn't know about these Blue Nile reissues. "Walk Across the Rooftops" has always been a been a big favorite, partly because I heard it right around the time I started my first job. I have a distinct and pleasant memory of driving into downtown Columbus, Ohio, scared to death over a job I was pretty sure was over my head, blasting an album that didn't sound like anything else I'd ever heard. I love "Hats," too, but "Walk" wins out for sentimental reasons. I'll be picking these up. Thanks for the heads up, boys. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3081 Registered: 03-2005 |
I listened to the two main discs of "Prisoners of Love" last night. It will serve me well for this group. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3082 Registered: 03-2005 |
I have a question. Luke Haines always seems to associate with rather cool people. I've detected a definite lukewarm view of him among the folks on this board. Are they any records of his or the Auteurs that can be recommended? Can he associate with David Westlake and Cathal Coughlan and yet do nothing but crap himself? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5110 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, I like Luke Haines' music very much. I think his best album is After Murder Park (http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Murder-Par k-Auteurs/dp/B0000252AG/ref=sr_1_3?s=mus ic&ie=UTF8&qid=1354253451&sr=1-3) but you may want to start with a new 2 disc anthology called Outsider / In - The Collection, which is only Ł5 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outsider-Collect ion-Luke-Haines/dp/B0084BCUM8/ref=sr_1_3 ?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1354253272&sr=1-3 | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2261 Registered: 09-2006 |
Far and away my favorite records of his are the Black Box Recorder stuff. I'd hugely recommend England Made Me and especially The Facts of Life. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3084 Registered: 03-2005 |
Thanks Padraig and Allen. I guess it was either of you who slagged Haines. I'm pretty sure a couple people did. Maybe my hallucination. It might be wisest to start with the anthology and go from there. Off to research . . . . | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5120 Registered: 05-2005 |
One Dove - Jolene. My favourite cover of the Dolly Parton classic (though The Sisters Of Mercy also did a great cover of it). | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 622 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Auteurs are super cool Randy, I love all the albums, Padraig is right that After Murder Park is probably the best but New Wave is a great debut and the Cowboy and Bootboy albums are also excellent. There is an excellent compilation called Luke Haines is Dead which is definitely worth getting, it has some brilliant radio session versions of Auteurs songs some of which are superior than the album versions. You also get the single version of Lenny Valentino which is one of the greatest singles of the 90s! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2062 Registered: 10-2008 |
The first few Auteurs albums are pretty decent Randy. He's a difficult old codger is Luke Haines, a bit "up himself" as they say over here, which for some people made it kind of hard to warm to him and his music. New Wave, After Murder Park and Now I'm A Cowboy(my favourite) are well worth a listen. From that last album New French Girfriend, Chinese Bakery and Lenny Valentino are great. The latter song always reminded me of the Go-Betweens circa Tallulah. I notice that song is collected here on an album I was unaware of, a kind of greatest hits that in typical "old codger" style Haines has chosen to totally re-record all the songs again. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Das-Capital-Song writing-Genius-Haines/dp/B00009XG2O. I'm listening to Now I'm A Cowboy just now and it sounds very good, first listen in well over 10 years I reckon. | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 623 Registered: 05-2005 |
and is about Lenny Bruce overdosing and coming round in Rudolph Valentino's dead body during his funeral procession in New York in 1926! | ||
| cosmo vitelli Member Username: Cosmo Post Number: 624 Registered: 05-2005 |
the version of Lenny Valentino on Now I'm a Cowboy is great but just doesnt have the pure visceral rock'n'roll rush of the single version. It's a brilliant song and I had never thought of it sounding like the GBs before but now you come to mention it... | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5126 Registered: 05-2005 |
Cathal Coughlan - Unbroken Ones "I gave up disaster, burned off clouds of doubt that I might shine Ocean heart for you" | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 196 Registered: 06-2005 |
Randy, This is my favourite of Luke's more recent songs Randy, strikes a chord with those of a certain vintage! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLfP1Bali IE I saw him play a little club in Dublin at the start of the year and he was very entertaining, an acoustic trip from New Wave right through to his latest Wrestling inspired album interspersed with readings from his books. It was pure comedy at times and one of the best evenings I spent in 2012. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2065 Registered: 10-2008 |
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92. Ricahrd D James is the Joy Division of electronic music. This is one of the greatest electronic albums ever made, and still sounds timeless, eerie, tense and hypnotic. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2066 Registered: 10-2008 |
I notice that Spotify have The North Sea Scrolls project featuring Cathal and Haines. I need to give it a listen, anything that includes songs such as The Papal Pagan, and The Australian IRA Show has to be worth listening to. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 197 Registered: 06-2005 |
Australian Journalist Adrian Mueller was also involved in that project Kevin, I missed it in Dublin, think it was for the Edinburgh festival originally. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5132 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Sunday Painters - I'm A Car Crash. Australian post-punk band from the early 80s. A friend of mine has written the liner notes for a retrospective which is coming out early next year. http://wallabybeat.blogspot.com.au/2010/ 10/sunday-painters-im-car-crash-7-termin al.html | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2071 Registered: 10-2008 |
Peter, Andrew Mueller used to write for Melody Maker and some of the monthlies if I recall properly. I always thought he was a good journalist. I'm sure he said his favourite album (or maybe fave Aus album?) was Liberty Belle. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 199 Registered: 06-2005 |
You're bang on Kevin, it was in a freebie book of various scribes favourite albums that came with MM or NME back in the early 90s - I'm sure I still have it somewhere. I moved house five years ago and boxed up a good 20 years of mags (mostly NMEs) in the loft, thinking my boys will appreciate a trawl thru them in years to come.. Well that's my excuse anyway ;-) | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2072 Registered: 10-2008 |
Yep, it was a book Peter, dont have it now though. I bought the NME, Sounds and Melody Maker every week from 1977 till the latter two folded in the late 80's/early 90's I think it was? Stopped buying NME about 10 yrs ago when it turned into Smash hits crossed with a gossip mag. I buy it periodically for my daughter, and still flick through it most weeks in the supermarket. I know times have moved on, but NME was a great magazine back in the 70's /80's - its a crying shame how it turned out really! I have nearly every issue of Uncut since launch in 1997(?), loads of Mojo since 95/96 - taking up ridiculous amounts of space. | ||
| peter ward Member Username: Peter_ward Post Number: 200 Registered: 06-2005 |
Kevin you must have a hell of a garage/ very patient partner! Mine ordered "very usefull boxes" sealed units and labeled them, "worth having, worth minding" Now if I could just get her to scan and save into folders?! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5137 Registered: 05-2005 |
Peter, Kevin, I have that booklet too. It came with Melody Maker. Mueller went to school just down the road from where I live in Sydney. I met one of his old teachers, who remembers him! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5138 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier on today I was listening to a three track promo cassette by a singer called Margot Smith. I picked it up for 50 cents after I saw that various Church members played on it. It was a promo for an album that came out in January 1998. I will try to find it in second hand stores. She died in Sydney in tragic circumstances last year. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 470 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, you might also want to look out for her debut album ( Sleeping With The Lion ) which was released in 1993. Steve Kilbey and Eddie Rayner ( Split Enz ) shared production duties. Kilbey co-wrote a few of the songs with Margot and he, Peter Koppes and Boris Goudenof are listed as featured musicians. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5143 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh. I figured if anyone here had heard of her, it would be you. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3091 Registered: 03-2005 |
Cathal--Grand Necropolitan It's such a novelty to have the actual CD, which arrived on the doorstep today. Some of the sound limitations of the download (that I thought was the only way you could get this album) are endemic to the original recording. With the exception of track 2, Cathal does his own production. It's always been interesting to me how much this album points toward his later work on "Foburg" and to some degree "Rancho Tetrahedron." It has the same 21st century science fiction Brechtian feel. He should be one of the big names among composers working in musical theater. His post-modern dystopic fantasies seem perfectly attuned to this time in history. Surely his word and soundscapes dovetail perfectly with the sensibilities behind computer games. It's weird nobody in London theater has ever gotten the idea and linked him up with a book writer and some serious production money. Maybe he's just that difficult to work with even in middle age. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2079 Registered: 10-2008 |
Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies. Back in my possession again, picked up cheap on Discogs. I bought this when it first came out, but must have lost it in either an ill advised purge/house move/loan to friend/trade in. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 472 Registered: 03-2007 |
Padraig, Another album from the same era that is worth looking out for if you do not already have a copy is 'Bohemia' by Mae Moore. Steve Kilbey produced it although I believe Gavin McKillop was brought in to complete same due to Kilbey's well documented drug problem. Kilbey, Grant McLennan, Peter Koppes and Boris Gudenof all play on same and Kilbey co-wrote three of the tracks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKB9UGYP rQ | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5157 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks Hugh, I'll check it out. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5168 Registered: 05-2005 |
XTC - Nonsuch. One of 1992's finest. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5169 Registered: 05-2005 |
Followed by a couple more classic XTC tracks; Senses Working Overtime and Senses Working Overtime. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2268 Registered: 09-2006 |
Ian Hunter - Overnight Angels and You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic Mott the Hoople - Rock & Roll Queen (nice little comp taking from the first four albums) and The Ballad of Mott: A Retrospective | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2082 Registered: 10-2008 |
The Auteurs - New Wave Randy, did you spring for any of their albums? I reckon this band are right up your street. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3095 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, what I did first was order the Luke Haines collection "Outsider/In" which arrived yesterday but I haven't heard it yet. It seems to pull together a bunch of Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and solo tracks. No Black Box Recorder. So I should have a good idea very soon. I have solved the mystery of where I got the idea people on this board were lukewarm about Haines. Jeff Whiteaker emailed me overnight about the "North Sea Scrolls" which he's gotten and likes a lot. He mentioned that he'd never been too keen on the Auteurs. Spence might have had a similar view since they so often tracked in their tastes. Last night I visited my only local music friend. He's decided to digitize his entire CD collection and discard the CDs so I went to cull his collection for things I'd like to have or at least like to check out. He's much more American music oriented than me but that allowed me to snap up some useful things like a Loretta Lynn box set. He's also more folk oriented than me. So I got a Simon and Garfunkel box. But he has his odd forays into U.K. rock so I snagged an Echo and the Bunnymen box set. I've never been as keen on them as I perceive a lot of folks on this board to be but it will certainly be worth having. And I snapped up some other overlooked basics like "Daydream Nation." I will have a LOT of music to go wading through. And I DO want to get "North Sea Scrolls." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5172 Registered: 05-2005 |
Big Star - Keep An Eye On The Sky | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2481 Registered: 01-2005 |
Echo and the Bunneymen never did reach the heights that they should have. Still all in all they did release one great album (Crocodiles) and one very good one (Ocean Rain) and a very good ep that was released in 1983 (with the live Do It Clean and the all night version of The Killing Moon). Too bad the two albums between Crocodiles and Ocean Rain were fairly mediocre. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2083 Registered: 10-2008 |
Heaven Up Here mediocre? Never heard that view before Michael. Whereas I find Ocean Rain mannered, with songs padded full of strings, because without the strings the songs are weak. I realise I am in a minority there! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2085 Registered: 10-2008 |
Randy, I know what you mean about Luke Haines voice, although I can usually suppress it and just concentrate on the quality of the tunes on the first three Auteurs albums especially. I am not really a fan of anything he did after these albums, although to be fair I haven't heard a lot of it because I gave up on him due to being disappointed with the 4th Auteurs album and being underwhelmed by anything I did hear by Black Box Recorder, Baader Meinhof and solo stuff. Lots of this stuff could be fantastic, I just didnt have the inclination to hear it at the time. Getting back to his voice, maybe its better just to hear it in short bursts, as in the length of an album, rather than over the length of an anthology or compilation where it might grate a bit. So I guess I have a bit of a love hate relationship with him, when he's good he's very good (early Auteurs), but stuff like BBR just leaves me cold. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2086 Registered: 10-2008 |
Oh, and I would bet my bottom dollar that Spence WOULD love The Auteurs! | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3098 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, I'll get over the voice. I always do. But one thing I'm finding with the Auteurs--at least what's on this anthology--is that Haines used a crappy crunchy high-gain electric guitar tone that detracts from virtually all of the songs. He's a song guy, which is something I appreciate greatly, but just about everything on this comp that dates up to 1996 or so has a rather amateurish sounding electric guitar tone totally at odds with the aesthetics of the songs themselves. It reminds me of a $69 Marshall practice amp I used to have. Jeff suggested that he did that simply because it was what was in fashion at the time--it's NOT the way Haines played when he worked with David Westlake. That guitar sound is probably the main thing I will just have to look past. "Lenny Valentino" is a clear classic, but it also would be better with a better guitar sound. I expect that I will get at least a few proper Auteurs albums. And the BBR album that Allen set up on the download site sounded quite good to me, at least on one listen. It's an entirely different sound from the Auteurs though. | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2090 Registered: 10-2008 |
Listening to The Auteurs Now Im A Cowboy at work just now on my MP3 player. Got to say I dont mind the guitar sound at all on this album at all, its fairly natural to my ears, but the technical stuff that you and Jeff would be aware of, and hear, just goes above my head! This isnt really a guitar heavy album mind you. I like your description of him as a song guy by the way. If I was to recommend one Auteurs album to you Randy it would probably be this one, and it does have Lenny Valentino on it! | ||
| skulldisco Member Username: Skulldisco Post Number: 2113 Registered: 10-2008 |
Robert Forster - Intermission(Best of The Solo Years) | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5232 Registered: 05-2005 |
The House Of Love - You Don't Understand EP. The sound of now, 20 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5233 Registered: 05-2005 |
Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms EP. The sound of now 10 years ago. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5234 Registered: 05-2005 |
I need to point out that Idlewild's A Distant History from the above EP is one of the greatest b-sides ever. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5235 Registered: 05-2005 |
Versus - Deep Red EP (today is an EP kind of day obviously). It's also an indie rock kind of day given what I've been playing. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5237 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nada Surf - The Weight Is A Gift. This band should be huge. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5241 Registered: 05-2005 |
Earlier, I listened to The Jam's The Gift. CD 1 of the box set gets two tracks completely wrong. They are the right songs, but the wrong versions. It's very shoddy. However, I don't mind all that much as I already have the other two tracks and didn't have these versions (one was a single b-side which I'm pretty sure has not been released on CD before, and the other sounds like a demo). | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1032 Registered: 04-2006 |
dead can dance - spleen and ideal Btw: Randy, I am a bit late, but to add my two cents, all three BBR albums are all time faves of mine. Cheers, Andreas | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 1034 Registered: 04-2006 |
Addendum: Luke Haines As I said I like all of the Black Box Recorder songs, but I do not like all of The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and The North Sea Scrolls stuff. Maybe it has to do with his voice? On the BBR albums Sarah Nixey sings - and she has a beautiful voice. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Various CD singles by Dubstar (they should have been huge), MIA, The BellRays, Neil Diamond and Daryll-Ann. Also, The Waterboys' Room To Roam album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 5287 Registered: 05-2005 |
Sound Crowd Orchestra - Sixth Season (Original 12" mix). A lost Irish dance/trance classic from 1994. I have it on vinyl and cassette. I'm not sure it was ever released on CD. |